1st Edition
List Cultures Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed
By Liam Young
Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, can this seemingly innocuous form tell us about historical and contemporary media environments and logistical networks? Connecting German theories of cultural techniques to... Read more
Preface, Introduction: List Cultures 1. History: Lists and media materialism 2. Epistemology: Pop music charts and the making of a cultural field 3. Administration I: The state, the fact, and double-entry bookkeeping 4. Administration II: The Nazi census and making up people 5. Logistics: Listicles and algorithms in real time 6. Poetics: Uncanny modernity in Heidegger, Borges, and Marker Conclusion: Etcetera, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Liam Cole Young , Ph.D., is a faculty member in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he writes and teaches about media and cultural materialism. He has published in Theory, Culture, and Society, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Amodern..
